Last month I ditched my landline as we wern't ever using it anymore. Well after doing so I remembered that my Fantasy Baseball draft is next month and we do that via a conference call as we have league members from all over the US.

Now, I could use my iPhone (and I may have to) but we all know all the iPhone has some issues with dropped calls from time to time.

So I was wondering if there anything on the market that would allow me make calls via VOIP on my Mac? Ideally free or even a 30 day free trail.

Those are the two that come to mind fastest. Neither is "free" for calling a phone number, but if you can convince your fantasy league to sign up, you may be able to do the conference call free in a computer-computer room of some sort.

Those are the two that come to mind fastest. Neither is "free" for calling a phone number, but if you can convince your fantasy league to sign up, you may be able to do the conference call free in a computer-computer room of some sort.

Sorry, I don't have specifics for you.

Brian

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Thanks Brian.

I was looking at the rates on Skype and for a 6 hour phone call that would only be about $7.00. If I'm reading the fineprint right. (0.02/min). That's cheaper then my long distance rate was last year on my landline. So that may be the way to go.

Another question in regards to Skype on the Mac. I have a newer model iMac (bought it this past October). I should be able to use Skype without headphones right? I know the one time I used iChat I didn't need a headphone so this screen has a mic built into it someplace. <G>

Based on that one would think Skype would work w/o headphones but I just don't want any surprises come draft day.

Thanks for all the replies. I'm signed up with Skype and all seems to be working. Couple of other questions for that more related to the service itself.

Should there be any problems dialing into a "conference call"? I'm not sure what company we use but we always dial an "712" number then enter an access code. Not sure why it wouldn't but I just don't want any surprises come daft day.

Also, how about reliability? Our draft generally lasts about 4-5 hours. Should one expect any downtime during that 4-5 hours?

Last month I ditched my landline as we wern't ever using it anymore. Well after doing so I remembered that my Fantasy Baseball draft is next month and we do that via a conference call as we have league members from all over the US.

Now, I could use my iPhone (and I may have to) but we all know all the iPhone has some issues with dropped calls from time to time.

So I was wondering if there anything on the market that would allow me make calls via VOIP on my Mac? Ideally free or even a 30 day free trail.

Thanks
David

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Hi dave, My friend uses this program called VOIP stunt on her PC.http://www.voipstunt.com/en/download.html. I had a quick look and they also have Mac & Linux versions. She seems to use it quite fequently, when the trial runs out she just creates a new account . this will also allow you to call landlines. I have not used it in years, so I do not know if still free or not.

Hi dave, My friend uses this program called VOIP stunt on her PC.http://www.voipstunt.com/en/download.html. I had a quick look and they also have Mac & Linux versions. She seems to use it quite fequently, when the trial runs out she just creates a new account . this will also allow you to call landlines. I have not used it in years, so I do not know if still free or not.

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